Metadiscourse assists readers in connecting, organising, interpreting, evaluating, and developing attitudes regarding the informative material. This paper explores the use of various metadiscourse features used by undergraduate and postgraduate students of Engineering and Management students to express their viewpoint and engage with readers. The findings of the study indicate that ESL writers focus more on expressing their ideas and ignore their responsibility to anticipate the readers’ reaction, to inform them and engage them in the text